Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why am I still getting stale/misdated news?
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.160832.9230@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 16:08:32 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.133653.1877@shaman.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun7.133653.1877@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
>	What I was wondering was, if UUNET has upgraded to Cnews, then
>why do I still get stale or misdated news? ...

Well, the obvious first question is "You're sure it's coming from UUNET?".
If that "still" implies you were getting it before, then something does
not compute -- UUNET formerly ran B News, which had date filters similar
to those of the modern C News.

It's also worth bearing in mind that UUNET's notion of what is "stale"
may be more generous than yours.

>	What version of Cnews is UUNET running? The new, great version or
>the old lax one?

A newer and greater version, actually.  A number of mods were added for
UUNET's, uh, unusual situation.  Most of them will probably filter out into
the distribution version eventually.

Bear in mind, however, that their news configuration is seriously strange
for excellent reasons, and it's not quite out of the question that surprises
might show up.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
